Barry Barish
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Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on gravitational waves.
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Born | Barry Clark Barish (1936-01-27) January 27, 1936 (age 88) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA, PhD) |
Spouse | Samoan Barish |
Children | 2 |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of California, Riverside Stony Brook University California Institute of Technology Sapienza University of Rome |
Thesis | A study of the reaction negative pion plus proton going to negative pion plus neutral pion plus proton at 310 and 377 MEV (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | A. Carl Helmholz |
Doctoral students | Kate Scholberg |
In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".[1][2][3][4] He said, "I didn't know if I would succeed. I was afraid I would fail, but because I tried, I had a breakthrough."[5]
In 2018, he joined the faculty at University of California, Riverside, becoming the university's second Nobel Prize winner on the faculty.[6]
In the fall of 2023, he joined Stony Brook University as the inaugural President’s Distinguished Endowed Chair in Physics.[7]
In 2023, Barish was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Biden in a White House ceremony.[8]